| The early state HJM Claessen, P Skalník Mouton, 1978 | 776 | 1978 |
| The study of the state HJ Claessen, P Skalník Walter de Gruyter, 2011 | 244 | 2011 |
| The early state: theories and hypotheses HJM Claessen, P Skalník The early state, 1978 | 188 | 1978 |
| The crisis in Soviet ethnography [and comments] VA Tishkov, LH Abrahamian, B Chichlo, T Dragadze, SP Dunn, ... Current Anthropology 33 (4), 371-394, 1992 | 122 | 1992 |
| Chiefdom: a universal political formation? P Skalník Focaal 2004 (43), 77-98, 2004 | 101 | 2004 |
| 28 The Early State: Models and Reality HJM Claessen, P Skalnik The early state, 637, 1978 | 99 | 1978 |
| Authority Versus Power: Democracy in Africa, Must Include Original African Institutions P Skalník The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law 28 (37-38), 109-121, 1996 | 95 | 1996 |
| The early writings of Bronisław Malinowski RJ Thornton, P Skalník, L Krzyżanowski Cambridge University Press, 1993 | 95* | 1993 |
| The early state as a process P Skalník The early state, 597-618, 1978 | 89 | 1978 |
| Studying peoples in the People's Democracies: Socialist era anthropology in East-Central Europe M Sárkány, CM Hann, P Skalník LIT Verlag Münster, 2005 | 79 | 2005 |
| A post-communist millenium: the struggles for sociocultural anthropology in Central and Eastern Europe P Skalník Set Out, 2002 | 69 | 2002 |
| Questioning the concept of the state in indigenous Africa P Skalnik Social Dynamics 9 (2), 11-28, 1983 | 69 | 1983 |
| Postsocialist Europe: Anthropological perspectives from home L Kürti, P Skalník Berghahn Books, 2009 | 66 | 2009 |
| Anthropology's multiple temporalities and its future in Central and Eastern Europe: a debate C Hann, M Benovska-Sabkova, A Boskovic, M Buchowski, D Kalb, ... | 58 | 2007 |
| Beyond states and empires: chiefdoms and informal politics P Chabal, G Feinman, P Skalník Social Evolution & History 3 (1), 22-40, 2004 | 58 | 2004 |
| Union soviétique: Afrique du Sud: les" théories" de l'etnos (The Soviet Etnos' Theory'and Its South African Parallel) P Skalnik Cahiers d'études africaines, 157-176, 1988 | 58 | 1988 |
| On the Inadequacy of the Concept of the ‘Traditional State’ Illustrated with Ethnographic Material on Nanun, Ghana P Skalnik The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law 19 (25-26), 301-325, 1987 | 57 | 1987 |
| Soviet Etnografiia and the National (ities) Question [with Discussion] P Skalnik, M Krjukov Cahiers du Monde russe et soviétique, 183-193, 1990 | 55 | 1990 |
| 27 Limits: Beginning and End of the Early State HJM Claessen, P Skalník The Early State, 619, 1978 | 55 | 1978 |
| Základy antropologie a etnologie J Copans, V Černý, P Skalník Portál, 2001 | 50 | 2001 |
